Thanks steve, If I am understanding you correctly, once I create the library, I neeed to move it to the drive before I access it?
Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven M. Sawczyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:58 PM Subject: Re: pointing ITunes to a drive: Are you wanting to create a separate iTunes library for the external drive? If yes, hold down option while launching iTunes and you'll be given a dialog in which you can create, or choose a library. Now, here's the trick. I find that, although I have the option to copy files to my iTunes folder unchecked, iTunes copies files if I start adding to a library from an external drive. My thought, which I've not been able to prove or disprove yet is that the library has to exist on the same volume as the songs you're importing, otherwise, they get copied. The various how-tos on the subject don't discuss this specifically, however. If you've created a new library, simply hold down option while launching iTunes and you can switch back and forth. If I find a way to import without getting iTunes to attempt to copy all the files, I'll let you know. Who knows, maybe it'll just work for you and you won't get errors saying that you're out of drive space like I did. :) HTH, Steve On Jul 29, 2008, at 5:36 PM, David Poehlman wrote: Hi, I know this should be simple, but I've got a drive full of folders I'd like to access through ITunes. is it as simple as ad to library or is there another technique I need to use? Thanks! -- Jonnie Appleseed With His Hands-On Technolog(eye)s Reducing Technologies disabilities one byte at a time
